Writings on Josh's site

A friend showed me this video yesterday.

Something appearing impossible isn’t, on its own, a legitimate reason not to try.

When a new project, decision, or chapter-of-life comes our way, there also quite often seems to come a simple but nearly-invisible choice for us to make: We can chose the easy path, where we proceed “the way we’ve always done it”, going forward well-found…

Today marks two months since the February 6th earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria.

I’ve been pondering generosity a lot lately.

We all know the rules — don’t cross the line; stay in line; don’t get out of line.

I’ve been continuing to put my efforts towards seeing more toilets rolled out to those effected by the February earthquakes.

It’s easy for us to get caught up trying to constantly deal with the deluge of problems we face day-to-day, putting out each fire as it arises.

After the utterly tragic earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria on February 6th of this year, my friends and I have been doing our best to help those affected.

When everything appears to be working well, the most important question to ask is: “What could make this break?”

I listened to a talk today that reminded me of a valuable piece of wisdom I heard years ago, which I thought was worth pondering and sharing.

It seems like every year we get more stressed, more scatter-brained, need more exercise and less screen-time.

There was a lot to be pessimistic about regarding cars 120+ years ago. 🚗 They were expensive.

I find myself holding a couple aspirations in increasing value as the years go on: The first of these is the minimizing of “noise” — of distraction, of clutter, and of that which fruitlessly wastes attention.

Have you ever thought about what in your life makes you hopeful?

I’ve always tended to like math more than the average person.

A couple years ago, a friend recommended to me the music of Steve Schallert.

You already know how to do it.

I’m an ever-growing fan of the webcomic medium.

When we see something novel that we don’t understand, we have a choice: Shake our heads, note that it’s weird, brush it off as something we’ll never understand, and move on with our lives OR, stop for a few minutes, take a look, and try to understand it.

I’ve given myself a bit of a challenge these last few years to migrate as much of my digital life as I can towards using open-source software and services.

“The most important step a man can take is not the first one, is it?

It’s interesting to frame both history and life through the contrasting lenses of solutions and implementation.

I regularly find myself making personal deep dives into things that I find especially cool and exciting.

How long would the devices you use day-to-day survive without internet access?

I find physical examples of redemption to be really potent and impacting.

I try to read at least a little bit of the Greek New Testament and/or Septuagint every day.

We’ve all got things we’ve been putting off dealing with.

I find myself interacting online with people from a lot of different timezones.

A couple years ago I scoured the internet for something I thought would be easy to find, and which I’m confident exists somewhere, but which I couldn’t turn up in my searching.

TL;DR: RSS is the best way to follow content online.

The most useful cooking advice I’ve ever heard: If you can tell there’s just “something missing” in what you’re cooking, simply add an acid. 1 A good squeeze of lemon juice on something bland can bring it to life in surprisingly magical way.

In the deep-diving of the esoteric world of technology as I do, I often come across tools which the vast majority of people will never need or make use of.

Lots of issues in the world today seem to come back to the “race to the bottom”.

by Josh Müller Of the dozens of movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, my personal favorite has to be Black Panther.

This is a pretty technical post.

Today I watched a video from Derek Muller (great name 😎👍🏽) called The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time.

I recently stumbled upon Johnny Harris’ video from a few years ago titled “What I learned by befriending Iranians on Facebook”.

In technology, a protocol is a standard and agreed upon language that allows different systems to communicate with each other.

It’s something I think many of us realize at a conceptual level, but I wonder how often we make decisions or align our lifestyles accordingly.

“Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people’s weaknesses.

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These past two weeks I had the supreme honor of taking the Permaculture Design Course on the Greening The Desert project in the Dead Sea valley, Jordan, where they have succeeded in turning a plot of completely dead desert land into a thriving food-genera…

Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.

Human civilization has existed for thousands of years — eons of empires rising and falling; of knowledge being created and lost; and of stories being lived, told, written, and retold.

It’s been a few years since I watched this clip of former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya sharing his concerns about attention extraction services and the dopamine industrial complex.

There are a lot of reasons single-use plastic waste is problematic.

The blank page is scary.

When was the last time you wrote a letter?

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.” ~ Morgan Spurlock “Leadership is simple.